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More cops facing criminal cases, but convictions remain a rarity in Dallas

Dallas Morning News 11/24/17

“Even when it looks really bad, [jurors] don’t want to say the officer did something wrong. Prosecutors have to overcome the public perception that the police officers are always the good guys and the people they encounter are the criminals. Police unions, in particular, have been the most effective in creating the aura that police have a really difficult job and they need to be given the benefit of the doubt.” – Delores Jones Brown, CJRA Expert.

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